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2019-07-30

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<p>The Home Office ensures that asylum seekers, who would otherwise be destitute,
are provided with accommodation and a weekly cash allowance.</p><p>This includes free,
furnished accommodation, and we also cover utility costs and provide individuals with
a cash allowance to cover other essential living needs. The level of the allowance
is reviewed each year.</p>

<p>Public Health England (PHE) works to reduce the incidence of sudden infant death
syndrome.</p><p>PHE does this through the provision of professional leadership and
guidance to the health visiting profession such as PHE’s Early Years High Impact Area
five - Managing minor illnesses and reducing accidents, to improve outcomes for all
children and prevent avoidable deaths. This can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a
href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756697/early_years_high_impact_area_5.pdf"
target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756697/early_years_high_impact_area_5.pdf</a></p><p>The
Start4Life programme provides information on safe sleeping and sepsis through its
Information Service for Parents email programme and the Start4Life website. Information
leaflets, posters and social media toolkits are available to general practitioners,
hospitals, children’s centres and local authorities. Start for life and the campaign
resources can be viewed at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/start4life"
target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/start4life</a></p><p><a href="https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/2-start4life/resources"
target="_blank">https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/2-start4life/resources</a></p><p>PHE
also works with the Lullaby Trust such as Safer Sleep Week, co-produced fact sheets
for parents and professionals on safer sleep spaces to promote safer choices. This
can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Facts-and-Figures-for-2015-released-2017.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Facts-and-Figures-for-2015-released-2017.pdf</a></p>

<p>The Ministry of Defence is currently evaluating what unit and assets are best suited
to the task required by the United Nation. This will be finalised in due course, prior
to deployment in 2020. Further information can be found in the written statement made
by the then Secretary of State for Defence (Penny Mordaunt) on 22 July 2019, (HCWS1779).</p>

<p>The physical education (PE) national curriculum is designed to ensure that all
pupils develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities, are physically
active for sustained periods of time and lead healthy and active lives.</p><p> </p><p>State
schools are free to organise and deliver a diverse and challenging PE curriculum that
suits the needs of all their pupils. Cricket is specifically listed as an example
of a sport that can provide important elements of the PE national curriculum programme
of study in key stages 2 to 4.</p><p> </p><p>The recently announced School Sport and
Activity Action Plan includes additional support for schools to open their facilities
over the holidays and after hours to encourage every child to find a sport they love.
The government will update the action plan in the light of the outcome of the forthcoming
Spending Review and will work with sports governing bodies, including the England
and Wales Cricket Board, in developing the proposals.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Essential
Life Skills fund, the department has recently provided £75,000 to the national cricket
charity, Chance to Shine, to deliver extra-curricular sport to young people in Stoke-on-Trent,
one of the department’s 12 Opportunity Areas. In addition, Sport England supports
children and young people in England by ensuring that there is a good sports and activity
offer before and after the school day. This includes investing £28 million into Satellite
Clubs between 2017 and 2021, some of which are cricket clubs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
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<p>The Stena Impero was seized illegally, and the Iranians should release it and its
crew immediately. On 20 July, the former Foreign Secretary spoke to the Iranian Foreign
Minister Zarif and summoned the Iranian Chargé d’Affaires to the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office to make this demand. We have been clear that we do not seek confrontation with
Iran, and that we will continue working hard to resolve the situation through diplomatic
means.</p>

<p>The UK has strong ties with Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan, which we value
and reinforce through regular defence engagement, exercises and training courses.</p><p>The
Ministry of Defence Permanent Secretary visited Islamabad in March 2019 for the annual
Defence Cooperation Forum with Pakistan and regular dialogue continues at senior military
level. The Pakistan National Defence University visited the UK earlier this year.
Bangladesh also held a National Defence College visit.</p><p>Defence relations with
Sri Lanka were significantly strengthened in 2019 by the appointment of a resident
Defence Adviser.</p><p>HMS Dragon visited Karachi in February 2019 as part of Exercise
AMAN, in which Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were also involved. HMS Montrose visited Colombo
in April 2019 as part of her deployment in the Indian Ocean and conducted a short
exercise with the Sri Lankan Navy.</p><p>In addition to bespoke training programmes,
Bangladeshi and Pakistani cadets are attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
in 2018-19, and there are members of the Royal College of Defence Studies from all
three countries.</p>

<p>Through the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund the Government has committed
£2.1m towards the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, which led the Gough Island
Restoration Programme to eradicate non-native mice to save the critically endangered
Tristan albatross and Gough bunting, and to help to maintain Gough Island’s status
as a World Heritage Site.</p><p> </p><p>The final stage of the eradication project
is planned to take place in 2020.</p>

<p>The UK took the opportunity to embed personnel with the US Marine Corps and jointly
develop the operational capability of the F35-B Lightning aircraft. By taking this
collaborative approach, the UK has been able to train its personnel in advance of
establishing our own Lightning footprint in the UK.</p><p>In July this year, personnel
returned from the US to establish the Operational Conversion Unit at RAF Marham to
enable the UK to conduct its own training.</p><p>The UK continues to work closely
with its allies to develop the F-35 programme to ensure freedom of action having initially
exploited this collaborative route to training.</p>

<p>The next generation acquisition programme will deliver the capability required
when Typhoon leaves RAF service. As part of the concept phase, a variety of concepts
to deliver the required capability are being considered. These will include hypersonic
weapon concepts as part of the next generation combat air system.</p>